If I leave my character next to the Runecloth bag recipe seller and run a keyboard macro that endlessly: /target Qia, interact with Qia, run the macro searching for the pattern and buys the pattern, escape twice de-targeting Qia; and put that on a loop.
Is that against the terms of service? Because there are at least 3 people on every layer of our server doing this.
Is it allowed if I am there keeping an eye on it while I do something else, in case some GM interacts with me?
Final question: Why in the name of all that is holy, didn’t they just make the pattern BoP?
I believe that degree of unattended automation would surely be against the ToS.
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Specifically what you are talking about would be considered a bot.
I feel like you knew the answer to this question before asking it.
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Well, I have reported it, and no action is taken. I just want to know if the only way to get the recipe is to do this? I mean what are my options?
The recipe is gone less than a second after it shows up. There is no way to get it without running a bot.
Just keep reporting the bots. I think you can send videos of them that you record to blizzard if you think it would help. I don’t know the bot hotline email off the top of my head though.
that sounds like a bot… and yes, against TOS.
Any automated script that doesnt require you to be present would be a bot.
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It’s not a bot.
A keyboard macro cannot do nearly the things that people think it can. It cannot interact in the way you would consider “a bot”
Really the best it can do is like make a button that disenchants a lot of stuff over an hour and then press “5” a lot or something. It can’t even do a fishing bot, which would be the most simple bot in game. Y’all overreacting.
Also, the entire thing is pointless since keyboards can have macros set in their hardware to mimic keys so there is no way to prove it is a macro to begin with.
-I’m a software automation engineer. I get paid to make bots.
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No one cares. An EULA doesn’t matter when it’s not enforced. You can tout all day long that someone is violating something in the EULA, but what difference does it make if they don’t do anything about it?
Exactly. People can get away with this because by the time Blizzard CS actually gets to your report 9 hours later the players will be gone anyway, and they can’t ban people based on hearsay and accusations.
I understand that - I detailed the bot to show I know exactly how it works.
I just don’t want to get banned for doing it.
There were so many horde players camping it last night that just by walking past it one of them hit me. The guards them promptly murdered them.
The bags have virtually no value at this time. They cost 2g50s on my server.
The only people that would be trying to automate this are the ones trying to exploit other players for the schematic.
Yes, you can do that. It’s basically just setting up your ah addon to search for a specific criteria and attempt to buy, if nothing matches the criteria, it won’t buy anything.
It’s not something that is possible for Blizzard to detect, even if it was against TOS… but now that you admitted it here? IDK
any automation 3rd party hardware/software outside the client is considered against ToS
Any unintended automation inside the client(exploting a bug) is also against ToS
Modifying game files is also against ToS
pick your poison
I haven’t done it yet - I just want to know what to do.
I cant go and name player names on the server forums and shame the player and her whole worthless POS guild, because that is against the forum rules, so I’m out of options.
Technically yes. Blizzard’s general rule is one key press, one action in game.
There used to be whole AH bots man… Back in cataclysm I remember trying to make money on ah with JC, and as soon as I posted a gem, I’d see a naked guy standing at the AH, who is there all day, instantly craft the gem I created and post it on the AH undercutting me by 1c. (basically because running to the mailbox was more detectable for a bot than standing still)
There was literally no way I could make a profit with people doing that lmfao… I just saw that, realized what is happening and just gave up on the AH.
You and others doing this will be banned eventually, and I’ll laugh.
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I haven’t done it - If I had, I would have the bloody recipe!
What do you mean exploit? How is that exploiting their character for the recipe?
Then why am I allowed to make macros that contain multiple actions?